A comparison of how often speakers at the two presidential nominating conventions used different words and phrases, based on an analysis of transcripts from the Federal News Service.

Could it be that there's a recent shift in the direction of de-regularization?

Could it be that there's a recent shift in the direction of de-regularization?

"Three batters later, the bases were loaded for Derek Jeter, but he flew out harmlessly to right field", and commented: I watched the game on tv and I can tell you that Derek's feet stayed firmly rooted on the ground.

There's a special place in purgatory reserved for scientists who make bold claims based on tiny effects of uncertain origin; and an extra-long sentence is imposed on those who also keep their data secret, publishing only hard-to-interpret summaries of statistical modeling. The flames that purify their scientific souls will rise from the lake of lava that eternally consumes the journalists who further exaggerate their dubious claims. Those fires, alas, await Drew P. Cingel and S. Shyam Sundar, the authors of "Texting, techspeak, and tweens: The relationship between text messaging and English grammar skills", New Media & Society 5/11/2012:

Word came last week that Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary will from this moment on include the phrase f-bomb (along with such other newcomers as sexting, flexitarian, energy drink, aha moment, earworm, man cave, brain cramp, and life coach).

It is time to stop ridiculing Chinglish and to study its patterns and the freedom it announces. For better or worse, it is the future of China.

But “9/11”? It’s not even clear whether to call it a word. True, we had precedents for labeling an event with the month and the day: the Fourth of July for one, and December 7, 1941 (“a date that will live in infamy”), for another. Neither of those, however, is ever represented in numeral form, neither “7/4” nor “12/7.”

s it more than a trivial question to ask about the origin of “9/11”? I think so. Because “9/11” signals the change from experiencing those events right now to remembering them back then, the turning point, when we began to think of the attacks and their immediate aftermath not as part of the present but as something in the past. There is an opportunity for some historian to clarify exactly when and where the immediate experience of September 11, 2001, had receded enough to become an event to look back on.

I don't think that the Greek rhetoricians had a word for the juxtaposition of disparate styles represented by passages like "not only are you violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain".

Kluwe's status as an athlete provides the ethos, the high style carries the logos, and the trash-talking establishes the pathos.